Books by David Carkeet and Complete Book Reviews
David Carkeet, Author . Univ. of Georgia $22.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2755-6
Novelist Carkeet (Error of Our Ways
) revisits the 1962 scandal of his Sonora, Calif., high school in this saucy, fanciful slice of creative nonfiction. Campus Sexpot
was a sexy pulp novel that appeared in the author's small middle-class...
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David Carkeet, Author . Overlook $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59020-304-0
If Alfred Hitchcock could remake Fargo
, it might feel something like Carkeet's comic-absurd latest (after his memoir, Campus Sexpot
). Denny Braintree, a writer for model train enthusiast mag The Fearless Modeler
, is sidetracked when he...
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David Carkeet, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4502-4
Domestic comedy is Carkeet's forte, and his fifth novel is a shrewd, wickedly funny delight, full of hilarious takes on rocky marriages, sexual boredom, raising kids, communication gaps--and nutty doings, as in almonds and cashews. Ben Hudnut, 44-yea
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David Carkeet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-020978-0
This first YA novel by Carkeet (The Greatest Slump of All Time) is so subtle that readers will be enmeshed long before they realize where the story is heading. Ricky Appleton has always been a good boy and, as his parents are, evermindful of the...
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David Carkeet, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64319-5
Flaky, amiable Jeremy Cook, the linguist Carkeet introduced in Double Negative , leaves the ivied halls of academe for the closer confines of a suburban home in this wrenching yet often exhilarating examination of a troubled modern marriage. When...
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David Carkeet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447014-8
Ricky Appleton, 15, considers the various kinds of silence that surround him, particularly the lack of communication within his family and the mystery concerning his town's annual treasure hunt. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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David Carkeet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-06-022453-0
Two issues--what defines ``manhood'' and whether it means having sex--are humorously examined in this YA comedy/mystery. Ricky and his best friend, Nate, are stuck doing maintenance work at Quiver Lake for the summer following 11th grade. Nate ``scor
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David Carkeet, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Washington Square Press $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73690-3
Dr. Jeremy Cook becomes the prime suspect in a double murder at the linguistic development institute where he works in Double Negative , a debut novel PW called ``a first-rate thriller.'' Cook appears again in The Full Catastrophe , this time as a...
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